 Security and tolerable risk for hydrogen service stationsIngrid Schjølberg and Anne B. Østdahl Technology in Society, 2008, vol. 30, issue 1, 64-70 Abstract: The use of hydrogen as a clean fuel in the automotive sector has come under increasing scrutiny. One source is decentralized production of hydrogen from natural gas by using the existing natural gas infrastructure. Hydrogen service stations with on-site reforming require a sufficiently high level of safety to engender public confidence. In this paper, we argue that public acceptance can be achieved if the service station is designed to be as safe as any petrol service station. Tolerable risk is defined as risk that is accepted in a given context based on the current values of society. This paper considers a tolerable level of risk for hydrogen service stations with on-site reforming based on incident data for petrol stations in Norway and the United States. Based on the IEC 61508 standard, a safety system can be built that will create the defined tolerable risk level, which means that hydrogen service stations will be as safe as any petrol service station in Norway or the US. Keywords: Risk; Tolerable risk; Hydrogen; Fuel; Automotive; Natural gas; Norway; Service station (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:30:y:2008:i:1:p:64-70 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2007.10.009 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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